# spatium
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* spacium (Early Medieval)

### Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁-to- (“extended”), an extension of *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”).
An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”), and compares with Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō), Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), Ancient Greek σπάνις (spánis), English span.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈspa.ti.um/, [ˈs̠pät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈspat.t͡si.um/, [ˈspät̪ː͡s̪ium]

### Noun

spatium n (genitive spatiī or spatī); second declension
* space, room, extent
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.683–684:gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō: Rōmānae spatium est urbis et orbis īdem.To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit. The extent of the Roman city and of the world is the same. Or, in more natural English: Though other nations have been granted land with a border, the city of Rome's extent equals that of the world.
* distance between points
* a square, walk, or promenade
* racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
* period or interval of time
    Synonym: intervallum
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.Yet, in order that a period might intervene, until the soldiers whom he had ordered [to be furnished] should assemble, he replied to the ambassadors, that he would take time to deliberate; if they wanted any thing, they might return on the day before the ides of April.
* quantity of length
* time or leisure, as with opportunity

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Derived terms

* spatiolum
* spatior
* spatiōsus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: espai
* → Dutch: spatie
** → Indonesian: spasi
* → Old French: espace
** → English: space
** Middle French: espace
*** French: espace
** → Irish: spás
* Galician: espazo
* → German: Spatium
* → Hungarian: spácium
* Italian: spazio, spazzo
* Occitan: espaci
* Portuguese: espaço
* Romanian: spațiu, spaț
* Sicilian: spazziu
* Spanish: espacio
* → Welsh: ysbaid

### References

* “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* spatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* spatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare after some time: spatio temporis intermisso to give time for recovery: respirandi spatium dare
* spatium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 578

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin spatium (“space, distance”).

### Noun

spatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatier, definite plural spatia or spatiene)
* (letterpress typography) space

### References

* “spatium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin spatium (“space, distance”), whence also English space.

### Noun

spatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatium, definite plural spatia)
* (letterpress typography) space

### References

* “spatium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.